I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? The image comes from _roberta’s Flickr photostream, and she doesn’t seem too critical.
About 850 miles southeast today, the Trinity Site — where the world’s first atomic weapon was detonated in a test [...]
Posted October 1, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology, Travel. Tags: alamogordo, alamogordo new mexico, atomic, atomic bomb, atomic weapon, mercury, mercury nevada, nevada, new mexico, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear test, nuclear test site, nuclear testing, nuclear weapon, test site, trinity, white sands, white sands missile range, white sands new mexico, white sands test range. 4 Comments.
While looking for a picture for my memorial to the bomb, I found a number of related links. This blog is sometimes nothing more than an annotated bookmark list, and this is why….
The Bomb Project describes itself as:
a comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for [...]
Posted August 11, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: atomic, atomic bomb, bomb, bomb test, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear test, nuclear tests, nuclear weapon. 2 Comments.
In what was to be the final act of World War II in the Pacific, the United States made the first and only use of nuclear power as a weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th (US dates), 1945.
George Weller of the Chicago Daily News snuck in to Nagasaki [...]
Posted August 7, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 60th anniversary, atomic, atomic bombing, bomb, bombing, bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki, bombing of japan, destruction, hiroshima, hiroshima and nagasaki, hiroshima bombing, japan, nagasaki, nagasaki bombing, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear power, nuke, pacific war, second world war, united states, war, world war II. 2 Comments.
George Weller won a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and was named a Neimann Fellow during his fifty-some-odd year career during which he covered much of Europe and Asia for the New York Times and Chicago Daily News. Weller died in 2002 at age 95, leaving behind a body of work that tells much of [...]
Posted June 17, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: censorship, chicago daily news, george weller, governement censors, hiroshima and nagasaki, information campaign, nagasaki, new york times, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear device, nuclear weapon, radiation, radiation poisoning, radiation sickness. 2 Comments.
